On 19 July 2010 22:06, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > 4. Is their contribution so important to OSM that OSM will let them decide > what licenses are acceptable for us?
It's similar to the compiler warnings, sometimes you don't want to change your code just because the compiler can't understand it and you have to turn them off but often they point out an actualy issue in the code, which is more likely the case here. Maybe contributors should have a choice of whether they want to allow the OSMF to publish their contributions under CC0, a free and open license decided by active contributors, ODbL 1+ or ODbL 1.0. Other mappers need to be contacted if you want to use their data under license X. That way OSM-derived data could be re-imported using accounts set up with the ODbL-only CT. It's an issue for many programmers in oss to allow their code used under licenses they don't know yet, it's the same for mappers. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
